Wolfram Christ, who studied with Ulrich Koch in Freiburg, was principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1978 to 1999. During this time he performed more than 60 solo concertos with the orchestra under such conductors as Karajan, Abbado, Maazel, Haitink, and Ozawa. Since 1995 Christ himself has appeared as a conductor with the Royal Danish Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana, and the Orchestra Mozart in Bologna. From 2004 to 2008 he was principal conductor of the Kurpfälzi-sches Kammerorchester in Mannheim, and he has served as first guest conductor of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra since 2009. Along with his career as Professor of Viola at the Freiburg College of Music, Christ is also active as a soloist and chamber musician and performs each summer as principal violist of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
August 2011